Remarriage

[sallyhunter1]

If a divorced person gets remarried without getting an annulment and that divorced person dies without repenting the remarriage will that person go to Hell?

 

[Polycarp1]

Hi, Sally! This has been the discussion in other threads before.

From a legalistic perspective, one that looks to Scripture for rules for living, it's explicitly condemned by our Lord in Matthew 19:3-9, and the parallel passages in Mark 10:2-9 and Luke 16:18.

However, many people look on this in the context in which Jesus was teaching it, that of the Pharisees seeking to achieve righteousness through the Law, and the fact that it was quite easy for a man to divorce his wife under Jewish law at the time. Jesus condemns the willful breaking of marriage vows for convenience as sinful and unrighteous.

Consider the case of a woman with an abusive husband, or a man whose wife insists on leaving him and having nothing to do with him. The overarching commands to love our neighbors as ourselves and to love one another as He loved us, call on us to look on these hard cases with mercy, rather than inflexible application of law. Would not our Lord in mercy have ruled otherwise with them, and been as merciful to them as he was to the Samaritan woman to whom He first revealed Himself as Messiah?

 

[ElvisFan42]

Didn't Christ die for our sins?

 

[Blackguard_]

If a divorced person gets remarried without getting an annulment or the spouse dying and that divorced person dies without repenting the remarriage will that person go to Hell?

fixed.

Anyway, it depends on whether he had faith.

I find myself posting this alot, maybe I should make a macro?

Anyway...

If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.

 

[justanobserver]

If a divorced person gets remarried without getting an annulment and that divorced person dies without repenting the remarriage will that person go to Hell?

Well, you didnt specify whether christian or non christian, I would presume that it mainly applies to the christian that would know God's take on it (those that know to good and do it not...). I would assume if the christian repents, then God will forgive. Wouldnt make much difference to the the non christian as christian beliefs sais he/she is going to hell anyways regardless of the sins committed if unrepentant.

As for a non christian such as I, well, I been married more than once and tho I am single (no plans on that changing), if I were to get re-married (shudders!) and then come to God, I would think that the verse in 2 Cor 5:17 that talk about when you become a christian "old things have passed away, behold all things become new again" would apply.

I mean, what is one do at that point? divorce again, tell the new spouse "sorry but I cant be married anymore to you" and be single?

It thats not so, I would be wondering (and I have) if that would mean that God would hold that "offence" against me no matter how much I repent.

But this is just my opinion for me only of how I see this.

 

[ImaginaryVoyager]

Well, I'm gonna go with, "Absolutely Not."

If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.

Man, that's an excellent quote.

 

[belladonic-haze]

That is so silly. Of course not!

 

[Loundry]

The strict labelling of remarriage as adultery by Jesus is a highly-inconvenient and thus properly-ignored teaching. There are many other inconvenient, and thus ignored, teachings in the NT.

 

[Texas Lynn]

No, and no LGBTs are in such a place for any sexual acts either.

 

[flicka]

No. But it gives the literalists something to squak about.

 

[Texas Lynn]

No. But it gives the literalists something to squak about.

OR EXHIBIT INCONSISTENCY ABOUT.